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BBC World News with Hoterfa Quaton.
A wide belt across the Continent of Africa has been severely affected by prolonged rains. From Ethiopia and Uganda in the east to Ghana and Burkina Faso in the west, the flooding has caused the death of at least a hundred people. A UN's spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said an estimated half a million people had been affected in the region. The Ghanaian President John Kufuor has declared the north of his country a disaster zone. The Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization in Ghana John Isaac Amoo painted a worrying picture of the affected areas.
"The recent flood disaster have destroyed extensively farm lands, large stock, infrastructure like bridges, roads. According to the elders of the communities, they said the level of rainfall is uNPRecedented. Some villages and communities have now been totally wiped off from the map of Ghana."
The Russian President Vladimir Putin who's constitutionally required to stand down next year says he hasn't ruled out running again for the presidency in 2012 or 2016. Mr. Putin said he expected to remain an influential figure after leaving office, but stressed he didn't want to weaken the position of his successor. He added that there were at least six likely candidates for the Russian presidency next year, singling out for praise the new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov whose unexpected appointment was confirmed by the Russian Parliament on Friday. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall reports from Moscow.
President Putin's praise for his new Prime Minister was generous. Till elevated to run the Russian government on Wednesday, Viktor Zubkov was a little known bureaucrat who had made his career in the tax police. But Mr. Putin described him as a real professional and a brilliant and pragmatic administrator who he had known well since the early 1990s when they both worked for the mayor of St. Petersburg. He also gave a heavy hint that Mr. Zubkov might emerge as a candidate to succeed him as president, though perhaps not the only one.
After years of self-imposed exile, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she will return to Pakistan on October 18. She told the BBC she felt confident that the people of Pakistan would rally around her because they wanted democracy restored. Ms. Bhutto also said she would lead her party in forthcoming parliamentary elections. She'd been discussing a power sharing deal with Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
The governing body of World Motor Sport has been explaining the reasons for its decision to impose a fine of $100 million on the McLaren team. It said emails between McLaren's driver Fernando Alonso and a colleague showed they had unauthorized knowledge of secret information belonging to their rival Ferrari and wanted to test it to make their own cars go faster. This evidence undermined McLaren's defense that it hadn't made use of the Ferrari material to gain a competitive advantage.
You are listening to World News from the BBC.
The European Space Agency says the most direct route through the Northwest Passage in the Arctic has opened up fully for the first time since records began, raising concerns about the speed of global warming. The findings are based on satellite images. Reester Puka reports.
The Northwest Passage is one of the most fabled sea routes in the world, a short cut from Europe to Asia through the high Arctic. Historically, it has been icebound, but recent years have seen a marked shrinkage in its ice cover. The process culminated in a massive drop this year and the latest satellite images show that the route is now fully open. The Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic has also seen its ice cover shrink and scientists say it may only be a matter of time before it, too, is fully navigable. They have linked the changes to global warming which they say may be progressing faster than expected.
A day after President Bush announced plans for a limited reduction in US forces in Iraq, the American Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said there could be further cuts by the end of next year. Mr. Gates said American troop levels could be down to about 100,000 by January 2009. He said that both the Democratic and Republican parties shouldn't impose new restrictions on President Bush to change course in Iraq.
"The consequences of American failure in Iraq at this point would, I believe, be disastrous not just for Iraq, but for the region, for United States, and for the world. I believe that the recommendations General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker have made and that the president has approved offer a sustainable path forward that deserves broad bipartisan support."
The authorities in Colombia have admitted that they made a mistake when they tried to transfer a suspected drugs baron to a different prison. The prison authorities were supposed to move the alleged head of the Norte del Valle cartel, Diego Montoya, but instead transferred a second Diego, the convicted right-wing paramilitary Diego Murillo.
BBC World News.
Several of Africa's poorest countries are in dire need of assistance due to severe floods that have killed more than 200 people and affected a million in recent weeks, officials warned Friday. A bridge damaged by heavy floods is seen in P'yongsong, September 10, 2007. Photo taken on September 10, 2007.
REUTERS
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BBC World News with Hoterfa Quaton.
A wide belt across the Continent of Africa has been severely affected by prolonged rains. From Ethiopia and Uganda in the east to Ghana and Burkina Faso in the west, the flooding has caused the death of at least a hundred people. A UN's spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said an estimated half a million people had been affected in the region. The Ghanaian President John Kufuor has declared the north of his country a disaster zone. The Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization in Ghana John Isaac Amoo painted a worrying picture of the affected areas.
"The recent flood disaster have destroyed extensively farm lands, large stock, infrastructure like bridges, roads. According to the elders of the communities, they said the level of rainfall is uNPRecedented. Some villages and communities have now been totally wiped off from the map of Ghana."
The Russian President Vladimir Putin who's constitutionally required to stand down next year says he hasn't ruled out running again for the presidency in 2012 or 2016. Mr. Putin said he expected to remain an influential figure after leaving office, but stressed he didn't want to weaken the position of his successor. He added that there were at least six likely candidates for the Russian presidency next year, singling out for praise the new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov whose unexpected appointment was confirmed by the Russian Parliament on Friday. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall reports from Moscow.
President Putin's praise for his new Prime Minister was generous. Till elevated to run the Russian government on Wednesday, Viktor Zubkov was a little known bureaucrat who had made his career in the tax police. But Mr. Putin described him as a real professional and a brilliant and pragmatic administrator who he had known well since the early 1990s when they both worked for the mayor of St. Petersburg. He also gave a heavy hint that Mr. Zubkov might emerge as a candidate to succeed him as president, though perhaps not the only one.
After years of self-imposed exile, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she will return to Pakistan on October 18. She told the BBC she felt confident that the people of Pakistan would rally around her because they wanted democracy restored. Ms. Bhutto also said she would lead her party in forthcoming parliamentary elections. She'd been discussing a power sharing deal with Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
The governing body of World Motor Sport has been explaining the reasons for its decision to impose a fine of $100 million on the McLaren team. It said emails between McLaren's driver Fernando Alonso and a colleague showed they had unauthorized knowledge of secret information belonging to their rival Ferrari and wanted to test it to make their own cars go faster. This evidence undermined McLaren's defense that it hadn't made use of the Ferrari material to gain a competitive advantage.
You are listening to World News from the BBC.
The European Space Agency says the most direct route through the Northwest Passage in the Arctic has opened up fully for the first time since records began, raising concerns about the speed of global warming. The findings are based on satellite images. Reester Puka reports.
The Northwest Passage is one of the most fabled sea routes in the world, a short cut from Europe to Asia through the high Arctic. Historically, it has been icebound, but recent years have seen a marked shrinkage in its ice cover. The process culminated in a massive drop this year and the latest satellite images show that the route is now fully open. The Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic has also seen its ice cover shrink and scientists say it may only be a matter of time before it, too, is fully navigable. They have linked the changes to global warming which they say may be progressing faster than expected.
A day after President Bush announced plans for a limited reduction in US forces in Iraq, the American Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said there could be further cuts by the end of next year. Mr. Gates said American troop levels could be down to about 100,000 by January 2009. He said that both the Democratic and Republican parties shouldn't impose new restrictions on President Bush to change course in Iraq.
"The consequences of American failure in Iraq at this point would, I believe, be disastrous not just for Iraq, but for the region, for United States, and for the world. I believe that the recommendations General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker have made and that the president has approved offer a sustainable path forward that deserves broad bipartisan support."
The authorities in Colombia have admitted that they made a mistake when they tried to transfer a suspected drugs baron to a different prison. The prison authorities were supposed to move the alleged head of the Norte del Valle cartel, Diego Montoya, but instead transferred a second Diego, the convicted right-wing paramilitary Diego Murillo.
BBC World News.
Several of Africa's poorest countries are in dire need of assistance due to severe floods that have killed more than 200 people and affected a million in recent weeks, officials warned Friday. A bridge damaged by heavy floods is seen in P'yongsong, September 10, 2007. Photo taken on September 10, 2007.
REUTERS
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